Much to the dismay of millions, Microsoft went ahead with its new Xbox announcement today. The announcement has been nothing short of a rousing success for anyone that buys video game consoles to watch television. After revealing that the new system would be called Xbox One for some reason, the [...] Read more »
Just this very moment, smug sunuvabitch Don Mattrick revealed the giant cable box-shaped Xbox successor. It seems however that Microsoft does not remember what number console they should be on and have decided to start over. The new Xbox is called Xbox ONE. The move shows that Microsoft probably never [...] Read more »
Kevin Conroy, aka, the most popular man to voice Batman, recently used twitter to confirm that a new Batman Arkham game is in development at Warner Bros. The industry term for Conroy’s tweet is called an “oopsy daisy.” If the tweet had been vague, it would have simply confirmed that [...] Read more »
There has been only one constant in the Resident Evil series; everything else has, at some stage, been cast aside in the name of progress—from the tank controls of yore to the high focus on tension and pacing of Resident Evil 4, both of which were cast aside just as [...] Read more »
In this episode Tom Towers provides the listener with pre-release impressions of the PC/home console version of Resident Evil: Revelations, as well as his first impressions of Metro: Last Light. The week’s news also makes for pertinent discussion: NPD, Nintendo Direct, Nintendo’s desperation for dough, and EA’s symmetrical duality—nobly cutting [...] Read more »
Following in the tradition of having two major Gran Turismo releases per console generation, it’s hardly a surprise that Gran Turismo 6 will be released for PS3. This has been met in some circles with nonplussed consternation. Given the myriad delays that Gran Turismo 5 suffered, and the late release [...] Read more »
I don’t know about other reporters, but I love being able to spread good news. So it gives me great pleasure to tell you all that EA are scrapping Online Passes. In a recent interview with Gamesbeat EA’s senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg said “We’re discontinuing Online Pass,None [...] Read more »
Ubisoft have released a new trailer for Assassins Creed: Black Flag celled Under the Black Flag, I know there’s been lots of jokes about Henry Rollins being in the game, but in a slightly more serious note i think that Ubisoft are missing a trick by not having Scotish Pirate-Metal [...] Read more »
I’m starting to think that i may have slipped through some kind of rip in the space time continum. I never thought that i’d spend another summer looking forward to playing Duck Tales, Castle of Illusion, Super Frog and Flashback. Now I get to add another title to that list [...] Read more »
I love a good bit of viral marketing, especially when its well thought out and adds something to the overall experience of whatever its promoting. Sometimes they can do this a little too well though, anyone else remember the campaign for Bioshock 2, theressomethinginthesea.com. A brilliant piece of marketing that [...] Read more »